Automobile tire-tool.



i TE STATIESv PATLNT WILLIAM JAMES REIIlI-OF GNANOQUE, 'NTARIU, CNlL/.c

AUTOMOBILE TIRE-T603'.

Specification of Letters Patent, Patented NDV., 1U, 1913.4;

Application filed October 2, 1913. Serial No. 792,911.

presser device willy beI rockedA onv its pivot 12a. The' presser' deviceat the side of the'. lever opposite the linlr 15, projects laterallybeyond said lever, and presents a @C broad surface to be pressed,against the tire C, for compressing the latter. As is best seen in Fig.2, the free end ofthe last men,-V tioned arm of the presser device isreturned rearwardly, as at 12b in curved form, pre- 55 senting arounding surface to contact with the tire. v

In use, the hook 11 is placed under the rims, as indicated in Fig.1,spanning the tire ,rim B, with the main lever 10 disposed latyaerally. The tool having been thus positioned, the second lever,13 isbrought to the position indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2, therebydrawing rearwardly on the adjacent arm of the presser device 12, and 75throwing the opposite presser arm against the side of the tire above thetire rim, to press the tire transversely. The tool is then rockedbodily, the center of movement being the-axis of the curved hook 1.1. Inthis so bodily rocking of the tool, the gripping `action olf the presserdevice 12 will serve to detach the tire. The tool, it is obvious, isalso useful to press the side of the tire inward,v in attaching thetireto the rim of 8.5

the wheel.

The device, it will be observed, is distinguished from the general typeof tools in which jaws are disposed for relative rocking movement in thesame plane, and where- 9o in the one jaw presents an end thereof againstthe tire.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent: n

1.l A tire tool, comprising a lever having at its front end a forwardlyextending hook presenting an open side to receive wheel rim and tire rimAand adapted to rock bodily thereon with the center of movement 100corresponding approximately with the axis of the hook; and atire-pressing device mounted on the lever to move in a plane transverseto the plane'of the rocking of. the lever.

2. Atire tool, comprising a lever having T o all whom, it may concern Beit known thaty I, lWILLIAM JAMES REiD, `a subject of the King of GreatBritain, and a resident of Gnanoque, in the Province of Ontario,Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and Improved AutomobileTireflool, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription. A

My invention relates to an improved tool for use in attaching anddetaching the tires of automobile wheels. In my improved device thelever has its front' end in the form of a rigid, forwarally-extendinghook presenting an open side to receive the wheel 15 rim and tire rim,and inconnection with the said lever. I provide a novel tire-pressingdevice to compress the tire transversely, the tool being rockable asusual in tools of this character in a plane transverse to the rims andtire.

The invention will be particularly eX- plained in the specificdescription follow ins )reference is to be had to the accompanyingdrawings forming a part of this speciication, in which similarcharacters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.v

Figure 1 is a sectional side view on the line 1 1 ot' Fig. 2, showing atool embodying my invention applied to a wheel rim, tire rim, and tire,and Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof.

rlhe body of the tool is in the form of a lever l0 and has at the frontend thereof a forwardly'ranging hook 11 which is disposed in the planeof the lever, and presents an open side to receive the rim A of a wheel,and a tire rim B.

Mounted on the lever 10 is a presser device 12 to engage and compressthe tire C. The presser device 12 is fulcrumed as at 12CL on the leveradjacent to the inner end of the curved hook 11, and is disposed in aplane at an angle approxii'natel;i normal to the plane of said hook, andis rockable transversely to the general direction of the lever and tothe plane of the hook 11.

To actuate the presser device 12, a second lever 13 fulcrumed at one endon the lever 10 as' at 11i, by rivets or the like, and a link 15 ispivotally connected with said second lever, between its ends, and withone laterally/'projecting arm of the presser device 12, so that bythrowing the lever 13 toward and from the main lever l0, the

at its front end a rigid, forwardly-disposed curved hook presenting anopen side to receive a wheel rim and tire rim, and adapted to rockbodily thereon; a tire-pressing device pivoted on'the lever to rockin aplane transverse to the plane of' the rocking of with the tire-pressingeviee, to voel; 15 same, the sind second lever nir-fing av move menttowarf anni from the lever in. a

plane transverse to .the plane of Cle "nook ancl the tire-pfessingilovioe and its lever being vrookable bodily with the -rst level 2O andthe hook.

In testimony Wheveo have Signed my name to ihisY specification in the*g'esence of two subscribing wit-messes.

WLLM JAMES REYL lVitnesses:

H. J. FRAMES, E. C. DYGERT

